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Friday, April 20, 2012

Shit. I'm not going to be able to carry it like Ashley Judd can. :(

I wound up going to the health clinic today for help. I've been getting pain in my chest like I did the last time I got sick like this back in March. That time, I wound up having such bad pain, I thought I was going to have to go to the ER. I wasn't at that point yet, this time, but I have no patience for the chest pain (and it also freaks me out a lil bit), so I figured going to the doctor sooner rather than later was the best plan.

I have that bacterial infection in my lungs again.

I also have infected shit in my sinuses.

And an ear infection, to boot! (Which is weird to me...I'm thirty-goddam-eight! I shouldn't be getting ear infections anymore, right???)

So they prescribed antibiotics AND a steroid. I don't know what the combo of those two things do that the one antibiotic can't do on its own, but there must be a reason for it. I also have to start using a nasal spray to help me with my allergies, because that's what's causing me to get sick so often, apparently.

I didn't know I was having a problem with allergies, but ok!

Anyway, life is boring around here for the time being. I can't go to the gym, and I have barely been able to get out to work, so I have no stories. Nothing fun is happening with me.

Maybe next week.

I might take comparison pics from before I take the steroids, and after I take them, so we can laugh at how puffy I get.

Or I can cross my fingers and hope that the puffiness doesn't happen...is that even possible? I dunno.

Chest pain is scary shit. Hope all the drugs help you out. Certainly a little temporary puffiness is a small price to pay.

On an unrelated note, we're you in Independence yesterday? Saw a woman who looked just like, non puffy, you. Opened my mouth to say ome thing and realized she had 2 kids and a guy I didn't THINK was Leo with her so I zipped it.

Chest pain IS scary shit. The last time it happened, it was so, sooo bad. I thought we were going to have to call 911! Thsi time around, I knew what it was, and I'm glad it didn't get as bad so quickly. Infections in the lungs are no fun, dammit!

And no, we weren't in Independence. I didn't leave the house all weekend after my doc appointment on Friday!